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The danger is that the social media provides a moderate dopamine hit but at nearly no “risk” - whereas many other situations provide a higher hit but at a much larger risk: the kid may be cranky, your spouse might be having a bad day, etc.

We tune our activities for the minimization of risk. Perhaps adding a random chance to ban you for browsing would help add some risk back in.



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